Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-06-03
Fatal Accident on Horses noe
Bend.

The Fast Line West on the L. IL. IL
left Altoona last Friday evening at
s:IOpm Il was made up of three
Pullman cars, two coaches and mail
and baggage cars Approaching Kit
tanning Point the passengers, while
enjoying the scenery and looking out
for Horseshoe Bend, saw coal train
descending the other side of the
curve. When it began to pass them
on the south track the passengers
we're disappointed at being shut out
from the fine view before them. Pres
emily those riding in the coaches
heard loud humping noise, and be-
fore they had time to consider a
dreadful crash came. The sides of
the two coaches were partly torn
away and the passengers crushed and
mangled. An axle under car 59,255
about midway in the coal train had
broken just before approaching the
passenger train, and while being
dragged along by the momentum of
the train and the weight behind, bad
Iurched to Que side after the locomo-
tives and baggage car had safely
passed it. II fell against coach No.
50, striking about the middle OF the
Cdr and tearing through to the end
The car following, coach No. 405.
was struck full on the front end by
the derailed coal car, which by this
time had been turned broadside. 1t
crashed into the coach one-third of
its length and here lodged. When
the contact Of the coal car with the
passenger car occurred the front of
the coal train broke away and ran
ahead. At the same time the loco
motives of Fast Line with the bag
gage cars broke away from the
coaches. The sudden stopping of the
derailed coal car caused nun Der Of
cars following to pile up and wreck.
The rushing sounds Of wheels, the
horrible grinding Of the cars in COLI
sion had ceased, but more dreadful
sounds came from the wreck. II was
the cries of the injured and terrified
passengers, some of whom were buri-
ed down among the debris Those
who escaped unipjured and the train
men as quickly as possible removed
the sufferers from the mass OF shat
tered timbers In the meantime the
railroad authorities in Altoona were
notified of the occurrence. Superin-
tendents Petit, Hutchinson and
Shepherd and their assistants were
soon in consultation, and messengers
were quickly sent in all directions no.
tifying the wrecking force, physicians
and others whose services were nee
essary. A train was made up in the
depot and at $40 o'clock it started
for the scene of the disaster Six
stretchers, medicine chest, and nee
essary appliances for dressing wounds
and making the wounded comfortable
were taken along.
After the relief train had gone
some minutes, the wrecking train
pulled out CT the depot. On their
arrival they commenced clearing the
debris from the south track, and at i
o'clock had cleared it 50 that the cars
comprising the relief train could pass
over it. The uninjured passengers
and those who had no friends among
the dead and injured boarded this
train and continued on their journey
west.
The injured having been placed in
the first sleeper were attended by the
Altoona hospital staff and made as
comfortable as possible. The names
of the victims are:
Dale B. Graham, son OF cx-Speaker
Graham, Allegheny, Pa; }. III.
Staullcr, of Lewisyille, o; Wyman
Snyder. one-legged man, Shamoken,
Pa; John Doris, newsboy, East
Liberty, Pa.
THE INJURED.
Frank McCue, Is East Thirty
third street, New York City, will die;
Charles Badelman, of BronGeld, No
ble county. dying; A. Agen, Fayette-
vile, n. Y; head and side; not seri-
Gus; Clara Albert, Flint, Michigan;
slightly injured; Rev. John Afford,
Beaver Falls. Pa; slight inicries;
Hattie Luckett, colored, Alexandria,
Va, not seriously hurt; Rev. r. Ii
Porter, colored, Detroit, Mich Edith
Case, aged III years, travelling with
her mother; prostrated by the shock;
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